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Safeguard Security
Alarms and double glazing are not sufficient to deter burglars Safeguard your home and your office SLIDING INTERIOR WINDOW PROTECTION • •••M H M Now you can sleep with your windows open without fear of intruders It is now widely accepted...
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Past and Present
50 years ago LIFE-BOAT BULLETIN No.24 1946 A year of peace In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives.
That is an average of 56 lives a month and is only 50 lives less...
Category: Articles
Kerry
Running into danger ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday September 11, 1981, the 26ft yacht Kerry left Douglas, Isle of Man, bound for Glasson Dock, Lancaster, crewed by two men.
Although the weather and visibility were good, there...
Rescue Mania
Beautiful clear blue skies were the backdrop for an international rescue event, Rescue Mania 1996. Largely organised by members of the Netherlands Reddingsbrigade and local volunteers, and involving some two years of planning and a week of...
Category: Articles
On 6Th April,1970, Captain Carlos Carreira and Captain Rogerio Pinto of the Portuguese Life-Boat Society,
On 6th April,1970, Captain Carlos Carreira and Captain Rogerio Pinto of the Portuguese Life-boat Society, in the course of a visit to R.N.L.I. establishments, called at Life-boat House, London. Here they are being shown a painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
by Mike Floyd The 1993 Medallists arrive at the Festival Hall for the presentations.
From left to right - John Pearson (Whitby), Peter Bisson (St Peter Port), Rod James and Frank Dunster (Hayling Island) and Hewitt Clark... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flora Dora
JUNE 30TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE At 5.35P.M. a message was received from the Wick coastguard that an auxiliary fishing boat was in distress six miles E.N.E. of Dunnet Head. The wind was light and variable and the sea smooth. At 5.45 P.M....
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (5)
Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.
JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....
Category: Services
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1967 Three Bronze Medals for Welsh crew Three members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans,...
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DEER RESCUED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 7.59 a.m. on Tuesday, the 25th May, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a deer which was being chased by them had jumped from the pier and was swimming strongly to the north-east...